New Programs

The Living Institute Leadership Program (LILP) will be a one or two year certificate program that educates people to be leaders in the tradition of cultural activism. This training could be applied in many fields, including facilitating general cultural change, environmental activism, sustainability, social justice, political activism, organizational development, social entrepreneurship, education, health care, the arts. Each of the potential faculty will identify with different areas of specific focus in these fields. Each of these areas is also a place for broad cultural leadership in our current evolutionary activation state in Western culture.  As we go forward with dialogue, the particular foci of the program will clarify, based on mutual interests and what is being called for in the culture. The Living Institute Leadership Round Table dialogue is in process with potential faculty members. Lectures, workshops and conferences will be part of this program. A key theme will be orienting students to the extensive, complex network of interconnected and related programs, institutions, grad schools and individuals around the world that are participating in a kind of awakening phenomenon that has an existential crisis and spiritual emergence quality in Western culture.

The Living Institute Wilderness Program (LIWP) is designing various lectures, workshops, programs and destination workshops with a focus to educate and integrate wilderness experience, knowledge and practices into daily life. The various models and methods to be considered in the LIWP are drawn from: aboriginal spiritual practices, with respect for the originators of these traditions; wilderness tripping (traditional methods of traveling through the land); the edible forest (practices and workshops explaining what local wild food is available and how to find and prepare it); utilizing small urban “wild” areas to regenerate oneself; how to create small urban gardens to supply oneself with fresh food (indoor and outdoor); permaculture concepts and practice; living off the land, ethical practices of hunting and harvesting animals for food and materials; green living practices, composting, alternative energy and water supply; medicinal plants and usages that could be grown at home; eco spirituality and practice (with Dr Dennis O’Hara); ecopsychology, drawing on archetypal psychology; eco and spiritual architecture and design; art and nature workshops.